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2. List of railway industry occupations - Wikipedia

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   One man is holding a bar, while others are using rail tongs to position a rail. Photo published in 1917. This is a list of railway industry occupations, but it also includes transient functional job titles according to activity. [1]

3. Freight conductor - Wikipedia

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   Yard jobs are divided into 2 categories; Switcher and Industry Switcher. Yard Foreman Switcher - A Yard foreman assigned to a yard switcher crew is responsible for sorting inbound trains. This is done by pulling out a single track and placing the rail cars from that track into other assigned tracks, as directed by the Yardmaster.

4. Yardmaster - Wikipedia

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   A yardmaster in Amarillo, Texas in 1943. The yardmaster is a railroad employee in charge of a rail yard.Duties involve managing and coordinating all activities in combining rolling stock into trains, breaking down trains into individual railroad cars, and switching trains from track to track in the rail yard. [1]

5. Switchman - Wikipedia

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   A Russian switchman on the Trans-Siberian Railway, photographed by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky between 1905 and 1915. The grave of John Cook, pointsman, Corstorphine , Edinburgh A switchman (North America) also known as pointsman (British Isles) or yardman (Commonwealth) is a rail transport worker whose original job was to operate various railway ...

6. Rail yard - Wikipedia

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   A rail yard, railway yard, railroad yard (US) or simply yard, is a series of tracks in a rail network for storing, sorting, or loading and unloading rail vehicles and locomotives. Yards have many tracks in parallel for keeping rolling stock or unused locomotives stored off the main line , so that they do not obstruct the flow of traffic.

7. Conductor (rail) - Wikipedia

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   With rail service privatisation, train operating companies attempted to bring in DOO to other network areas, c2c operating from London Fenchurch Street is an example of that. Currently, several titles describe a guard: train manager, train host or conductor. South Western Railway and Merseyrail still use the term guard. The role of the guard is ...